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As many Europeans attending PDC, blogger
Alan Smith took advantage of the extra "free time" from the time zone difference to play around with the bits delivered to attendees. You don't wanna miss his meaty review of VS 2010, Oslo, WCF, WF and Dublin.
See full story here.

Dion Almaer (Google) shares his thoughts about some of the things he saw at PDC 2008. "Windows Azure looks great. The “on premise” feature looks particularly intriguing. If they
can bridge the data center and the cloud, they have something quite compelling… I am curious about the details… Even...

Todd Bishop posted a video with the demo run by Microsoft researchers on Wed showing a project called SecondLight, an extension of the company's Surface tabletop computer.
Technical details about this project can be found
here.

Microsoft announced yesterday it is looking to make jQuery part of their official development platform which means that jQuery will be distributed with Visual Studio. The news got a positive reception by the
jQuery team: "we are quite excited by these prospects and wishes to take this opportunity...

If you are attending the PDC 2008 you received a pre-beta Windows 7 build yesterday (6801) which contains many features the Windows Media Center team has been developing over the past year.
Charlie Owen from the Media Center team took a few minutes to outline some of these new features for you. Full...

Justin Davies introduces an interesting discussion: the impact of Microsoft Azure for Enterprise Architects. He ponders: "for many organisations Architecture = Microsoft
has simplified a very complex debate and cut short many a 12 month engagement for budding enterprise architects." What...

The conversation is happening now and here are the highlights: Andrew Connell: "Azure, VS10, Win7... PDC2008 ROCKS!!!!"
John Osborn: "Applause for multiple WebConfig files to support dev and deployment scenarios..."
Robert Hallock: "Steve Sinofsky demonstrated a build of Windows...

Windows 7 was demoed for the first time this morning at PDC 2008. Even if you attended the Keynote you can't miss
this recap wrote by Ed Bott full of
screenshots and details about the cool features of the new OS.